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Separated 20 Years
Truth Stranger Than Fiction
Marks This Reunion Story
by FRANK MAJORS
(From Atlanta Constitution)
The steel-like set of the matronly
Frenchwoman’s eyes relaxed into
a rare flashing twinkle as she be
gan to describe the wonders she
had experienced during her five-
month visit to America.
Before this observable emotion,
Madam Sarah Guempick, from
Paris, had recounted with appar
ent stoic detachment how her hus
band and three of their 13 chil
dren had been killed for their
underground resistance to the Nazi
occupation.
Her fluent French poured out
in volleys as she told of this and
countless other scenes of horror
throughout the war. At times it
was difficult for her Atlanta sis
ter, Mrs. Max Butler, of 592
Washington St., S. W., to trans
late.
The two have for the past five
months been re-living their 29
years separation since Mrs. Butler
came to Georgia as a soldier’s
bride following World War I. She
was then Mrs. Solomon Tabaeh-
nick of Sylvania.
Turning quickly to her forth
coming departure from Atlanta
Wednesday, Madam Guempick
eloquently declared, “My heart
fills with tears having to go back
now. Already America seems like
home to me.”
The 54-year-old Frenchwoman
came to Atlanta in May on a visit
to Mrs. Butler. Of a large famliy,
only the two sisters, and their
mother, Mrs. Abraham Gold, of
Memphis, Tenn., are still alive.
She too, w'ould like to live in
America, she revealed, if only she
could bring the four young chil-
dred she still has in her care. Her
youngest, five years old, is a found
ling she rescued from a hospital
hiding-place when its mother was
snatched up and sent away to a
concentration camp. The boy soon
will be given the Guempick name
by the courts.
The four killed in her own im
mediate family were not the only
relatives she lost during the war.
She disclosed her brother’s entire
family, among others, was wiped
out.
In explaining how her husband
and children had died, Madam
Guempick told how she had been
forced to watch as German storm
troopers shot down her 17-year-
old daughter, Simonne. Simonne
had been in DeGaulle’s army, she
revealed, and had been caught
delivering messages to the under
ground organization.
Her other two daughters, Ida
Lea, 14, and Madam Woolf, 30, had
been gassed in Anneheim concen
tration camp in much the same
manner as her husband. He was
a salesperson before the war, she
stated.
Two more sons had served the
army and had become prisoners
Mrs. Guempick (left) and Mrs. Butler in Atlanta
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